History Quote by Philip Sington

“Prague is far more than the sum of its physical parts or its history. It is a city of the mind and the imagination,…

— Paul Wilson

“The streets of Prague were a fantasia scarcely touched by the twenty-first century—or the twentieth or nineteenth, for that matter. It was a city…

— Laini Taylor

“Prague entranced you, lured you in, like the mythic fey who trick travelers deep into forests until they’re lost beyond hope.”

— Laini Taylor

“Prague does not have its name for no reason - in truth, Prague is a threshold between the life on Earth and Heaven, a…

— Gustav Meyrink

When I went to Czechoslovakia under the old Communist regime one day in the '80s, I thought to myself whatever I do, whatever happens…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Prague. Praha. The name actually meant “threshold”. Pollina had said the city was a portal between the life of the good and … the…

— Magnus Flyte

“Kingbitter, as he did frequently nowadays, was standing at his window and looking out onto the street below. This street offered the most mundane…

— Imre Kertész

My own interest in Kafka's letter came about when I was writing an article on Peter Ginz, the boy novelist held in Terezin, not…

— Justin Cartwright

Franz Kafka is dead. He died in a tree from which he wouldn't come down. "Come down!" they cried to him. "Come down! Come…

— Nicole Krauss

“the train plunges on through the pitch-black night I never knew I liked the night pitch-black sparks fly from the engine I didn't know…

— Nazim Hikmet

Kafka was a complex character in a complex historical era. In order to understand him, you have to do more than cite facts. It…

— Reiner Stach

“area was less busy, swirling like currents in a lazy stream and sparking light greens, clear blue, and lemon yellow, which was a relief…

— Kat Richardson